[CPEO-BIF] TCE vapor intrusion response at Teledyne/Spectra Physics site, Mountain View, California

[Lenny Siegel]

EPA sets sights on TCE vapor intrusion
New cleanup plan focuses on airborne toxic chemical from city's polluted groundwater

by Mark Noack
Mountain View Voice(CA)
June 8, 2018,


The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to strengthen cleanup regulations for airborne toxins along a contaminated area covering much of Mountain View's North Bayshore. 

In a public meeting last month, EPA officials presented plans to update their cleanup strategy for the Teledyne/Spectra Physics Superfund site, which extends north of the city's Rex Manor neighborhood up into the western side of North Bayshore. 

Like Mountain View's other contaminated areas, underground aquifers along the Teledyne site are polluted with trichloroethylene (TCE), an industrial degreaser used in the area's bygone semiconductor industry. Since the early 1990s, the companies responsible for the pollution have been tasked with treating the groundwater to remove traces of TCE, which is known to cause cancer.

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For the entire article, see
https://mv-voice.com/news/2018/06/08/epa-sets-sights-on-tce-vapor-intrusion

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel at cpeo.org>
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